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We examine speculative attacks in a controlled laboratory environment featuring continuous time, size asymmetries, and varying amounts of public information. Attacks succeeded in 233 of 344 possible cases. When speculators have symmetric size and access to information: (a) weaker fundamentals...
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crisis countries (Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Cyprus, Spain) based on over 200 past macroeconomic adjustment episodes between … 1960-2010 worldwide. At its trough, between 2010 and 2015 per capita GDP had contracted on average 11 percentage points …
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Against the backdrop of the Greek three-act tragedy, we present a theoretical framework for studying Greece’s recent … debt and currency crisis. The model is built on two essential blocks: first, erratic macroeconomic policymaking in Greece … macroeconomic policies in Greece are considered. The model’s mechanism and assumptions allow either for a Grexit from the euro area …
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and current account deficits, which have in turn driven Greece's foreign indebtedness to alarming levels, necessitating …
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This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
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The paper examines the effects of the age-differentiated decreases in the minimum wage which Greece implemented in 2012 …
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This paper, using a microfounded macroeconomic model that embeds the key features of the Greek economy, studies the efficacy of the various policy measures taken, at national and EU level, to cushion the economic effects of the pandemic shock. The paper attempts to give quantitative answers to...
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We asked economic experts polled by the CESifo World Economic Survey how to handle the fiscal crisis in Greece in the …-level characteristics, especially credit default swaps as a measure of fiscal stability, predict views on whether Greece should exit the …
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turn looks for engines of sustained growth. We use a micro-founded macroeconomic model calibrated to Greece. Our … Greece had simply remained at its pre-crisis level. On the other hand, we show that, in the absence of the official fiscal …
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- a 10 percent mandatory top-up in the Minimum Wage (MW) for married individuals - in Greece in November 2012. Using data …
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